HI 5100 Capstone Project Plan
The goal of the Capstone project is for students to combine their work experience with their academic coursework to produce a feasible, implementable Health Informatics project and provide an evaluation and academic, critical reflection on the project including its benefits, weaknesses, improvement opportunities, and overall assessment. Ideally, this project will teach students to support their organization’s strategy and operations and to become leaders in the field of Health Informatics. After selecting a suitable faculty mentor approved by the program director, students will plan a project to be designed, implemented, and evaluated in the course of the second year. Students must prepare a formal needs assessment and will design a proposal. The proposal will be reviewed and critiqued by the students and faculty. Students may advance to implementation only after formal approval by the course director.
The final product of the Capstone course will be a manuscript prepared for publication in a scientific journal. Thus, students must address the expectations that publishers place on manuscripts. In this class, students will engage in learning how to properly design and format a manuscript. Emphasis should be placed on acquiring skills to create a manuscript for publication.